A Princess by Christmas by Julia London

Author:Julia London
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2020-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Lady Dammer of Belgravia was delivered a healthy baby girl last Saturday. The child has, at the time of her birth, a dowry estimated to rival that of the children of the queen. The long line for her tiny hand may commence.

At a private supper this week, it is reported that the King of Wesloria was taken ill and rushed from the room by his ministers. As he appeared the following afternoon at a tea, we may all be hopeful that his health has returned to him, although many noted the shadows under his eyes. Perhaps the stress of brokering a peace agreement that has resulted in a severe disadvantage to his country has taken its toll on the monarch.

—Honeycutt’s Gazette of Fashion and Domesticity for Ladies

HOLLIS FELT MORE alive than she had in a very long time. She bounded up the steps to Donovan’s room, found him sleeping deeply, and pressed a kiss to his forehead. In his sleep, he frowned.

She retreated to her master suite and glanced around the room. She was holding herself, she realized, as her arms were wrapped around her body in a hug. Of course she was! She’d pulled Marek Brendan’s extraordinary secret from him and was holding it in herself.

She wanted to help him. Poor man—what a burden he’d carried all these years! She guessed, giving what she knew about Weslorian history, that he was thirty-one or thirty-two years old now. Which meant he’d been keeping this secret for about half of his life, and with no one to talk to. She couldn’t imagine how hard that must have been for him.

No wonder he was such a mysterious man—a darkly handsome, mysterious man who had suddenly appeared in her life from half a world away.

She was captivated by him.

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